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If the engine starts and idles nicely—and there’s a nice fat spark at the plugs—but won’t rev, it sounds like a distributor advance sping(s) is broken or faulty in some other way. Might consider rebuilding or replacing the distributor (I’d choose a Mallory dual point over the Pertronix dist, and Pertronix makes a module for that as well). If the car runs well but conks out on the road after it warms up, then restarts and repeats, it’s that stupid little ground wire inside. Someone else mentioned a blocked gas cap breather, which is also quite easy to check. Rust in the gas tank? Could cause the engine to run well and then stop, which is a good reason to use a clear fuel filter. But this really sounds like a dist problem …<br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature"><a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661">Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: #715FFA; padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0">On Thursday, September 21, 2023, 6:05 AM, Tom Felts <tomfelts@windstream.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv2648000627"><div><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div>I'm using the new floats, have a new 3ohm coil, and have changed the Pertronix to a new one. This is crazy----but after my last attempt by cleaning and oiling the baseplate of the distributor, she has sat at idle for a loooooong tie and has not shut down. I'm still shooting in the dark, I'll admit, and if she shuts down again I'll do a quick spark test.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Tom</div><div><br clear="none"></div><hr id="yiv2648000627zwchr"><div id="yiv2648000627yqtfd05702" class="yiv2648000627yqt5527134192"><div><b>From: </b>"Robert Markovich via Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net><br clear="none"><b>To: </b>"Bob Spidell" <bspidell@comcast.net>, "healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net><br clear="none"><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, September 20, 2023 5:41:07 PM<br clear="none"><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Healeys] update on shutdown issue<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><div id="yiv2648000627yqtfd38614" class="yiv2648000627yqt5527134192">
Might the brass floats also have pinholes, causing them to fill with fuel and preventing them from rising as they should? The new nitro phyll floats solve that issue. If not, I’d suspect the distributor (internal ground wire or advence weights). Might also be worth buying another Pertronix module and a 3-ohm coil (always smart to have a spare along anyway) and see if it isn’t one of those. Still, it sounds more and more like an advance problem if the engine won’t reverse. <br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv2648000627yahoo-signature"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aol-news-email-weather-video/id646100661">Sent from the all new AOL app for iOS</a><br clear="none"></div><br clear="none"><p style="font-size:15px;color:#715ffa;padding-top:15px;margin-top:0;" class="yiv2648000627yahoo-quoted-begin">On Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 2:49 PM, Bob Spidell <bspidell@comcast.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="yiv2648000627iosymail"><div id="yiv2648000627"><div>
re: "The pump pumps normally and each time I pulled the float bowl
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Which type/brand of pump do you have? I've seen pumps, both points
and SS, do some unexplainable things. Another thought: something in
the tank that intermittently blocks the pickup. We bought a used
tank for our BN2 and experienced erratic behavior from the engine;
my dad finally tracked it down to a pinhole leak near where the
pickup was soldered to the tank. Dad surmised the flux used to
facilitate the soldering eventually etched the hole (the tank was
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<div id="yiv2648000627yqt95592" class="yiv2648000627yqt0783226228"><div class="yiv2648000627moz-cite-prefix">On 9/20/2023 7:46 AM, Tom Felts via
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connections in the ignition system, pulled the distributor
base plate out and cleaned it--the the two pieces were very
tight. I have let her run in the garage for long periods of
time and she has not shut down again so I haven't been able
to check spark. </div>
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before she would start again then shut down. Then start,
then shut down. </div>
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approach, but without being able to check spark it seemed
appropriate to change out components. </div>
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thought it might be a fuel supply issue. So---I pulled the
float bowl covers and all was ok there--also pulled and
cleaned the carbs. If the float bowl jets were stuck in a
closed position it would get no gas and eventually shut
down---but---both would have to stick so each carb wouldn't
get gas. this seems like an unlikely condition.</div>
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be dumping gas out of the overflow tubes---so, again,
unlikely since it would still run. I have already changed
fuel filter and blew out the line. The pump pumps normally
and each time I pulled the float bowl caps, they have been
full of gas. So--I have basically ruled out fuel starvation
as a cause. </div>
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